A new 24/7 Champion or two and the continued build-up for Hell in a Cell continued this week. Away from the drama between Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins however, RAW was pretty flat.
Matches:
Asuka vs. WWE RAW Women’s Champion Bianca Belair: Becky Lynch was ringside and cleaned house after Asuka and Belair had a great match that Belair won on a counter of an Asuka submission attempt.
Rey Mysterio, Dominik Mysterio and Eziekel vs. The Alpha Academy: Chad Gable and Otis and Kevin Owens: Another fun one that saw Eziekel win with the Twisting Brainbuster variation after an Owens gaff took out Gable.
Alexa Bliss vs. Doudrop w/Nikki Ash: Bliss got another win with Twisted Bliss.
Ciampa vs. Mustafa Ali: Theory was ringside and got involved to throw the match out as Ali continues to make his case for a title shot, while Ciampa continues to prove he’s a great hand.
United States Champion Theory vs. Mustafa Ali: Theory got the win on a hobbled Ali, with the ATL. After the match, Adam Pearce confirmed Ali would take on Theory again at Hell in a Cell.
Riddle and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. WWE Undisputed Tag Team Champions Jimmy and Jey Uso: A war that ended with a Super Diamond Cutter from Riddle but it came after he got the win via DQ after Jimmy nailed him with his scooter.
Rhea Ripley vs. Liv Morgan: AJ Styles and Damian Priest got involved, but Morgan still got a huge win. After the match, Priest beat on Styles and almost attacked Morgan before Finn Balor got involved.
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports.
Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders.
His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023.
Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief.
Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale.
Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.
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